The first of Burrough's classic Martian tales, A Princess of Mars centers around John Carter, a Confederate Captain of the American Civil War, who finds himself on the planet Mars. Considered a classic and one of the landmark works of the genre, it is still just as interesting today as when it was first published.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known by the reading public for his timeless series of Tarzan novels. However, following closely behind are the wonderful exploits of John Carter of Mars, a planet known to the native Martians as Barsoom. In "Gods of Mars," the sequel to "Princess of Mars," Carter finds himself back on Barsoom after a ten-year hiatus, during which he had been unwillingly thrust back to his native Earth. Upon his return to Martian soil, Carter finds himself pitted against the...

One of the classics of science-fiction literature, The God of Mars is one of Edgar Rice Burrough's most well-known and enduring novels, well worth reading for anyone.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The entire affair is shrouded in mystery, said D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped." John Clayton, Lord Greystoke - he who had been "Tarzan of the...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The entire affair is shrouded in mystery, said D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped." John Clayton, Lord Greystoke - he who had been "Tarzan of the Apes" - sat in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D'Arnot,...

"Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest "
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was published in 1914. The character was so popular that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. For the novel's centennial...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware that he is different from the apes of his tribe, who are neither white nor hairless, he nevertheless regards them as his "people." When older, larger, stronger apes decide that he an undesirable to be killed or expelled from the tribe, it is fortunate that Tarzan has learned the use of primitive weapons. Although small and weak by ape standards, Tarzan is a human of...